There was really no excuse to lose tonight. I have a feeling this team will continue to suck for a very long time, and if they're lucky they will put together a decent winning streak to end the season. But they are just a really bad basketball team right now.

While Pau was bad.... Howard was worse... especially on the end of the floor he's supposed to be great on. He gave up 3 offensive rebounds on free throws in the 4th quarter alone that resulted in 5 points for the Pacers. 9 missed free throws with the last two under pressure not even close. He was constantly chasing blocks and no one rotated to his man.

The whole team should be ashamed outside of Kobe and MWP tonight. Metta missed some big free throws but he left it all out there....

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